With a grim set of facts and a hard way to go, Konrad Gerhard Walde Ziegler of Lee & Ziegler is asking the Georgia Supreme Court to overturn for a second time the murder conviction of Melissa Norris on charges of killing her father in 1995 while he sat on his sofa.

“It’s only a very narrow issue,” Ziegler told the Daily Report before his Tuesday video teleconference oral argument before a high court closed by the novel coronavirus pandemic. He said Norris had an excellent defense for her second trial in 2017 with Rodney Zell of Zell & Zell after Zell won the reversal of her first conviction from 1997. Ziegler said District Attorney Bill Doupe also did an excellent job, and it was a clean trial before McDuffie County Superior Court Judge Thomas Britt Hammond of the Toombs Judicial Circuit.

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